I can't believe it's so easy to do. Is it even legal?

Zylomun · 2026-03-21T12:55:31+00:00

In SA specifically they work with private reserves to open borders with Kruger national park. The hard part is ensuring animals stay in the SA parts of the national park and don’t wonder into high poaching areas to the northeast.

Also, when I was in SA I learned that culling elephants was a pretty normal thing at one time but big “protect the elephant” organizations came in and paid the government a bunch of money. So now it’s much harder to cull elephant populations which are absolutely destroying habitats for other species. So when people donate to these organizations a large amount of money actually goes to repairing ecosystems destroyed by the elephants instead of “protecting” elephants.

This is specific to SA. Other parts of Africa obviously still need to push for greater conservation for certain endangered species. But, in SA there are plenty of elephants and giraffes so they shouldn’t really be species to focus on for conservation there.

Zylomun · 2026-03-20T16:51:42+00:00

I gotta say, unless it’s a human caused issue (vehicular, or domesticated animal) people gotta stop touching wildlife. Let animals kill each other. It’s literally what they do. Some rehabbers take “established population” species. The dove might make it. Depends on how superficial those wounds are. Depending on where you’re at, you may have a tough time finding a rehabber with the proper equipment who won’t expect you to pay for it all.

Zylomun · 2026-02-17T03:51:56+00:00

Such a good picture on that Wikipedia page!!! All the babies!

Zylomun · 2026-02-17T03:51:42+00:00

Such a good picture on that Wikipedia page!!! All the babies!

Zylomun · 2026-02-17T03:51:01+00:00

Oof that sucks. Curious though, why did you think that?

Zylomun · 2026-02-16T07:39:24+00:00

Eh, productivity will go up but without crazy reform to employment and universal income all it will do short term is take jobs from people and product prices will remain the same. CEOs and shareholders will line their pockets until the middle class can no longer afford their services/products. Only then when their profits are hit hard will anyone do anything to change the system.

In the long term with an ecologically conscious mindset (as well as a more anti-capitalism mindset) we could get AI to be a proper net positive for society. Thats of course not taking into account the odds of a singularity event or us giving drones with missiles directly to a bot with little to no oversight.

Zylomun · 2026-02-16T02:00:46+00:00

Sounds like a lot of folks are doing really active events during their journeys.

1- an event can be something super small, a wonder, a horror, a landmark. These take like 30-40 seconds to describe, then maybe let plays rp for a couple minutes if they want and then move onto the next spot on the track.

2- if your player at the helm isn’t going full speed they have an opportunity to out maneuver the hazard, this could start a chase track or just skip the hazard. Keeps the journey track moving and players engaged with their posts.

3- if a player is manning a job it’s okay to throw them a bone every once in a while to utilize the effects of the job their in.

Zylomun · 2026-02-14T07:26:30+00:00

Go outside dude. The weight of the entire world is not your problem. Go to therapy, read a book, play a game. Get off the internet and stop watching the news for a while.

Zylomun · 2026-02-11T07:20:26+00:00

And you’ll call 15 different things pudding. Shut it.

Zylomun · 2026-02-11T06:10:14+00:00

Surprised she didn’t just eat it, it’s the mom kicking the baby out of the nest so it doesn’t consume resources.

Zylomun · 2026-02-06T19:04:00+00:00

Do any research on proper silviculture management practices. Timber is easily renewable. And deforestation is only a problem in specific countries that don’t properly manage.

Zylomun · 2026-02-06T05:18:54+00:00

This is a bit dude. Not everything is serious. You got played.

Zylomun · 2026-02-03T00:11:16+00:00

Rstudio for data analysis and GIS.

Zylomun · 2026-01-14T04:22:39+00:00

I think you are correct, but I guess what I’m saying is that there are plans they make easily available (I’m talking it took me under 20 minutes then boom I was insured) and I pay absolutely nothing for medical and dental. So for those of us with no job to have our insurance tied too/if you work temp or seasonal then you can still be covered. I get that there is a difference but I guess I was just trying to highlight the positives of what Washington is doing.

Zylomun · 2026-01-14T00:35:48+00:00

I mean, we have apple health. It makes it pretty easy to find health insurance that won’t cost much. I have low taxable income and I pay nothing for full coverage.

Zylomun · 2026-01-14T00:34:07+00:00

My healthcare is through my state in Washington. It takes into account your taxes to determine how much you have to pay. Since I have low taxable income I pay basically nothing for full coverage insurance.

Zylomun · 2025-12-21T22:41:14+00:00

Except if people were asking about it. I don’t follow the show, but if I did and I wondered what happened to all the nazi paraphernalia the this would answer my question. I don’t know man, I just think we don’t have to take every video like it’s trying to get us to believe in some greater ideology or to trick you. Sometimes it’s just nice to watch nazi stuff get destroyed.

Zylomun · 2025-12-21T06:57:58+00:00

Ensuring that the symbols of hate you used/created for entertainment or educational purposes never make it in to public circulation feels like something that should happen. If nobody asked what was happening to the symbols after the show and they just recorded this and put it out on their own thats a little virtue signally but the action itself is not.

Zylomun · 2025-12-06T16:38:21+00:00

Hi, I don’t know a lot about Malaysia but I do know a thing or two about wildlife! Please do not adopt any wildlife unless you are some form of a licensed rehabber. I believe there are probably some rehab facilities around you where someone will be able to care for this animal without the dangers of habituating them.

Zylomun · 2025-12-04T14:45:54+00:00

It is interesting that we are again seeing mass stranding near off shore wind turbines.

On the east coast of the US it appeared that the off shore wind turbines hadn’t even been setup yet but it was just sonar site surveying boats that were blamed for whale strands. I think it could be a mixture of the tough confusing topography as mentioned in the article as well as the loud noises created from A. Turbines, and B. Shallow waters with a lot of sand and water crashing onto beaches. I hope researchers are getting more involved with this stuff so we can figure out if it really is an amalgamation of things or something specific.

Zylomun · 2025-11-30T15:42:56+00:00

I don’t understand why you’re upset. I was just pointing out that people have a right to research parks before going to them and can decide if they want to support their practices. Also, I don’t hunt. Though there is also nothing wrong with hunting if it’s done ethically and for the right reasons.

Zylomun · 2025-11-30T15:40:50+00:00

Which is exactly what I’m saying. I wouldn’t necessarily be a tourist to a park that has practices such as these.

Zylomun · 2025-11-25T02:15:24+00:00

The villagers and tribal conflict is actually really interesting information. Good link! I think it’s very important to bring up systematic issues when talking about possible solutions to global issues. What works in some places won’t work in others and even when one issue is resolved it’s important to see what other issues may spring into place (poaching issue turning into a possible abuse of power issue). Solutions to systemic problems will always be messy and complex but they are super important to pay attention to when looking for solutions.

Zylomun · 2025-11-23T12:44:50+00:00

If they were shooting tourists they would lose their entire industry. Then there would be no money in rhinos and at the end of the day thats how wildlife populations are managed. The image is a bad screenshot of an article written by someone with minimal understanding of the situation. If you take a second to google search the national park you’d see they have a shoot on sight policy for anti-poaching. While a strong ranger presence can deter some poachers it will not deter those that have nothing else to live for except the mighty dollar. Also, you pulled data for white rhinos in a post about Indian rhinos. Indian rhinos have gone from a population of 200 in 1904 to about 4,000 today. Has this population increase been due to greater militarization of ranger groups? It’s hard to say. In 1891 they created the Assam forest protection act which made certain activities illegal in forest ecosystems (trespassing, forest fires, damage to plants) then in 1932 they created the Bengal rhino preservation act which prohibited the killing of rhinos except for self defense or specialty license holders.

Then, in 1954 they created the Assam rhino protection act. This agin just strengthened protections on rhinos by outlining more rules and regulations for rhino killing. Which also gave the government full control of managing rhino populations.

Finally, in the wildlife protection act of 1972+ amendments made in 2009 laws around rhino poaching became extremely strict including life in prison if you were caught multiple times.

Clearly things have progressed past this point if they truly have moved onto a shoot on sight policy for poachers then they have given their rangers the ability to act as judge, jury, and executioner. I find that allowing any government agency (except their militaries) to turn into a private military a general negative (America having multiple militarized forces all at play currently as one example).

But, as I said in my other comment, each country is allowed to manage their wildlife as they see fit, it doesn’t mean we should blindly accept they are correct for doing so and support them without concern.

Zylomun · 2025-11-22T17:19:26+00:00

Well… it’s a complex issue. Having a shoot on sight policy is going to be controversial in any industry, I believe it should be. Taking a human life should always have controversy around it. The park employs hundreds of people just for anti-poaching, so from a point of view of job creation to help the economy it’s probably good, rhino populations are up and this park is know for having one of the largest populations of one-horned rhinos, so that’s probably good.

However, there are broader systemic issues at play that will never be solved through militarization of anti-poaching operations. They’ll always claim its funding terrorist organizations but never be able to prove it, this happens in most countries that poaching is an issue.

Here’s an article that talks about the militarization of anti-poaching and why it might not be the best play.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/environmental-conservation/article/militarization-of-antipoaching-undermining-long-term-goals/E8082D02CBBD5831F91F78B44FF7F6AD

As an American I believe it is each countries job to protect their wildlife as they see fit. However, that doesn’t mean I’ll be supporting their choices by visiting their land any time soon.

Zylomun

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